BOB Geldof has broken his silence on the death of his daughter Peaches saying he finds himself crying on the street if he thinks of her.

The Boomtown Rats singer sat down with Lorraine Kelly almost three months since Peaches Geldof was found unconscious in her bed on April 7 after taking heroin.

Geldof, 62, says he has thrown himself into his music which allows him to be on stage and forget, even just for a moment, about the tragedy in his life.

“There’s not many options,” he said. “It’s intolerable, it’s very hard as, everybody must realise if it’s happened to them too. What else do you do? You get on with it.

“The default position for me as a person is right, things have to be organised, and that distracts me,” he said. “Like anybody else these things assault you without warning. You could be talking to someone, you could be walking down the road, and I have got to be very careful because this is still very raw.

“I’m walking down the road and suddenly out of the blue there’s an awareness of her and I buckle, and I’ve got to be very careful because walking down the King’s Road there’s paps everywhere so I have to duck into a lane and blub for a while,” he said.

Gone too soon ... Peaches Geldof died after using heroin.Source:AFP

While music has helped him start to heal he said he can’t think about the words of songs too much because they can easily remind him of Peaches or his former wife, Paula Yates, who died of a heroin overdose in 2000.

He says he gets particularly choked up when performing the Boomtown Rats hit Diamond Smiles because the lyrics take on a new meaning for him.

“I was writing about a girl I read about in one of the papers, a socialite, and she went to a posh party and went upstairs and she hanged herself during the party,” he said. “I think somebody said she was the brightest of diamonds and I called the song Diamond Smiles.

“If I really think about those words it’s too bizarre, it’s too telling, about whether it’s about Paula or - now - what it’s about Peaches,” he said.

Geldof had three children with Yates, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie. He also formerly adopted Yates’ daughter, Tiger Lily, which she had with late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.

Geldof said following Peaches’s death that she was “the wildest, funniest, cleverest, wittiest and the most bonkers of all of us.”